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souped
adj 4
Collocations
3VERB + SOUPED
arms, racing-car
SOUPED + NOUN
gills, motor
PREP.
in, up
Definitions
adj
1
Excited.
2
In trouble or in difficulty. (Compare in the soup.)
Luck I had the presenee [sic] of mind to dive into Manning's or I was souped.
3
Intoxicated, drunk.
[…] souped to the gills. He had been drinking with his buddies while momma lay in a hospital bed. He was face down on the floor laughing and singing.
'There's always morphine,' he said, and I imagined myself, in a bed crisp as blank paper, tubes up my nose and in my arms, souped to the eyeballs on morphine and trying to tell my friends what I thought of them.
4
Under the influence of narcotics.
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Luck I had the presenee [sic] of mind to dive into Manning's or I was souped.
Wiktionary02
[…] souped to the gills. He had been drinking with his buddies while momma lay in a hospital bed. He was face down on the floor laughing and singing.
Wiktionary03
'There's always morphine,' he said, and I imagined myself, in a bed crisp as blank paper, tubes up my nose and in my arms, souped to the eyeballs on morphine and trying to tell my friends what I thoug
Wiktionary04
By installing two carburetors that racing-car enthusiast souped up his motor considerably.
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